#gloomiumi

"...I’ve been calling to you for some time. And now here I am, and you can rest. I am the quiet you’ve been longing for. After all the garishness of life, the jostling, the clawing, the dull thrum of desperation in you...Will I get the fixes I need? Will I be somebody? Will I get the fixes I need to be somebody? But, Daniel, you already know who you’ll be...An ugly duplex back in Modesto. A job in an office with drab carpets and flickering lights. A woman in the mold of your mother, vacuuming on valium. A genteel drinking problem, like your father. Your wife counting down your thrusts. Your children shying away from you. All the confidence and hope of your youth replaced by a seething, boiling regret. Until one day, you’re at a traffic light. The light turns green, horns honking. You don’t move. Horns honking. You don’t move. A comfortable chair in a room that slants to the north. An easeful death...Rest. It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay. It’ll feel like a bath. Rest. Like honey on your tongue. It is the comfort we all long for. The end. Rest. Come. Come. I’ll hold you, you rest now."

-The Vampire Armand speaking to a young Daniel Molloy, IWTV Season 2, Episode 5: "Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape"

The Vampire Armand and his powers of persuasion

cutie claudia - kirsten dunst in the iwtv movie (1994) parallels with bailey bass in s1 of iwtv (2022)

“My place was never in this world... I sought and longed for something I could not quite name. But in you, I found it. To be lost and to be found, that is the lifespan of love. And in its brevity, its tragedy... this has been made eternal... Better this way... to fade... with your eyes gazing upon me..."